For Families of Students in Communication 7 (ESL) with Miss Tori Mazur

My contact information is in your student's planner.
Please call school at 336-267-1900 if you have any questions or would like to visit us.
During the second semester, I teach with Ms. Rodriguez and Ms. Frank.

General Information - Miss Mazur's Wikispace

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Places We Create Our Work Digitally:
edmodo	dropittome	edu.glogster
shelfari	podbean	pixton comics

storybird	vimeo	voki
	NAMS website and ACS website	Students Making Videos About Math Topics

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Class Challenges instead of "Rules" prezi

Learning Never Stops

Colleges where I learned about life:

University of Hartford

lesson learned:
go to class or you may lose your scholarship and have to transfer to a less expensive school

http://www.hartford.edu/

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Western Connecticut State University

lesson learned:
living in an all-girls dorm has advantages

http://www.wcsu.edu

Meredith College

lesson learned:
it's never too late to change your mind about a career and start over again

University of North Carolina - Greensboro

lesson learned:
to master something, you need to study it in-depth (and take the GRE to get into a Master's program)
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Solving Challenges Independently

Can you identify which part or process is challenging you?

Can you work through it in a different way?

Can you work through it quietly with cooperation from a partner?

Can you be specific when I talk to you about it?

Keeping Track of our Learning

What did you learn yesterday?
How does it connect to what we learned today?

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What we learned during the first 18 weeks of school:

Focus for the Third Six Weeks of Class: Word Study - Six Types of Syllables that help us break apart multi-syllabic words Suffixes that change a word's part of speech and function within ideas Reading Like Writers with narrative poetry to analyze how language helps us understand Perspective/Point-of-View Character and Motivation Conflict (Internal and External) Figurative Language Elements of Fiction and Poetry Word Choice
Grading Policy: Please download this pdf to access grading and writing skills we will practice this year in Communication 7 (ESL).		communications-7-syllabus.pdf Details Download 69 KB


Focus for the Third Six Weeks Daily Warm Up: Analysis of what text says and does not say using a daily comic and tracking thinking to monitor comprehension. RL7.1 and RL7.10	Vocabulary Strategies: Prefixes and Roots L7.4 and L7.6 Spelling patterns: Based on student developmental level L7.2	Reading like a writer: Read other people's writing to analyze ideas/details, craft/structure. Discuss observations and take notes on what is important to help us as communicators. Stay focused on discussions. All Reading and Listening standards integrated.	Writing like writers: Practice applying new ideas, words, or techniques to writing. Make changes to improve writing after conferences and discussions. Stay focused on writing. W7.4, W7.5, W7.6, W7.10
Focus for the Week of 9/30:	How do we organize evidence, or support, to build a strong argument? Reading & Writing Skill Needed: Determine Importance	Written Expression: Organizing Ideas for evidence using What-Why-How strategy Word Study: individual focus based on student needs
Focus for the Week of 9/23:	How do we organize our analysis of how two different authors present a message on the same topic? Reading skill: Determine Importance	Written Expression: Organizing Ideas for Comparison using Cornell Notes Product: Group Essay comparing/contrasting the editorials Word Study: final sounds -ce/-ge/-ve/-se
Focus for the Week of 9/16:	How do we communicate "the message", or theme of a long presentation?	Written Expression: Summary Product: Summary statement of the theme presented by the animated short "The Scarecrow" Word Study: Complex Consonant Clusters in two-syllable words
Focus for the Week of 9/9:	How do our faces communicate to others?	Word Study: Complex Consonant Clusters
Focus for the Week of 9/3:	How do people communicate stories over time?	Written expression: informal vs. formal types of writing
Focus for the Week of 8/26:	How important is listening in communication?	Written expression: observational note-taking; completing a survey

For Families of Students in Communication 7 (ESL) with Miss Tori Mazur

General Information - Miss Mazur's Wikispace

Class Challenges instead of "Rules" prezi

Learning Never Stops

University of Hartford

Western Connecticut State University

Meredith College

University of North Carolina - Greensboro

Can you identify which part or process is challenging you?

Can you work through it in a different way?

Can you work through it quietly with cooperation from a partner?

Can you be specific when I talk to you about it?

Leave your Digital Entrance or Exit Ticket on my Wall.

What we learned during the first 18 weeks of school:

Focus for the Week of 9/30:

How do we organize evidence, or support, to build a strong argument?

Written Expression: Organizing Ideas for evidence using What-Why-How strategy

Focus for the Week of 9/23:

How do we organize our analysis of how two different authors present a message on the same topic?

Written Expression: Organizing Ideas for Comparison using Cornell Notes

Focus for the Week of 9/16:

How do we communicate "the message", or theme of a long presentation?

Focus for the Week of 9/9:

How do our faces communicate to others?

Focus for the Week of 9/3:

How do people communicate stories over time?

Written expression: informal vs. formal types of writing

Focus for the Week of 8/26:

How important is listening in communication?

Written expression: observational note-taking; completing a survey